Spotlight

Award nominations are due Monday, Oct 28, 5:00 pm. Grants applications are due Friday, Nov, 8, 5:00 pm. The Chase Faculty Community Service Award provides $10,000 to a full-time University of Colorado faculty member who, in addition to his or her university responsibilities, has, pro bono, provided exceptional educational, humanitarian,...

Christina Ebben, Graduate student in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sceinces, was recently informed that she will be receiving a Fulbright US Student Program award to Brazil. Ebben will conduct research at the University of Campinas as part of a project to apply optimization methods to improve the Molecular...

The Denver Asian American Pacific Islander Commission Mayor’s Diversity Award is given to recognize leadership in advancing social justice work. Minsun Ji is the Political Science department’s Director of the Center for New Directions in Politics and Public Policy. Minsun was selected this year for her work as a labor...

Haoxiang “Edward” Liu (BA, Communication 2016, and Puksta Fellow) has now received four international awards for his cinematography for the short film Your Smile, shot in Beijing in 2018. Most recently, Haoxiang received the 2019 Around International Film Festival (ARFF) Barcelona Best Cinematography Award . Haoxiang has already received four...

At Altura Elementary School in Aurora, many students come from struggling families that experience food and housing insecurity. The administrators at Altura are teaming up with Bright Horizons Learning Center at Fitzsimons on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus to collect backpacks and easily made food supplies. You can help by...

Ronica Rooks, Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, recently received a prestigious Fulbright Canada Award. Rooks will spend the spring 2020 semester at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where she will conduct research alongside other experts on aging. Rooks’ project will look at the links...

Sandra Quinn, CLAS Degree Audit and Transfer Credit Coordinator, was a presenter, together with Camden Farmer, Assistant Registrar, at the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) 2019 Technology and Transfer Conference in Las Vegas on July 14. Quinn and Farmer’s presentation, “It’s a Matter of Trust: Building...

In a paper published August 23 rd in the journal Quaternary Research , Geography and Environmental Science Professor Emeritus Martin Lockley, and his colleagues, explained the significance of the discovery of baby sea turtle fossil prints from the Pleistocene epoch in South Africa. Lockley, who studied turtle tracks from Colorado,...

A new proposal by Physics Professor Martin Huber (lead PI) and Dan Dessau (CU Boulder, co-PI) has been officially funded by NSF MRI, in the full requested amount of $999,633. According to Huber, who also holds a joint appointment in electrical engineering, this project may have opportunities for both engineering...

Brian Buma, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, recently published with colleagues in the journal Nature Sustainability on the record-breaking fire seasons that are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Large wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of investments to support resilience to wildfires. This has prompted new...